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Re:Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:09PM (#50223170)
Haha, I immediately thought the same thing when I saw it!
Re:Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:07PM (#50223160)
Glad you find it useful! Let me know if there is anything missing, tools or features.
Re:Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:49AM (#50219094)
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There's a filter by platform already. You can sort by any of the columns, so I'm not sure if more filters are really necessary right now.
Why a bit of a stretch? They are compared on four aspects (platforms, price, GH stars, open-source). Any more I can add?
The radio is a good idea. :) I saw something today where you automatically join a live multiplayer Doom game when the agent starts working...
Thanks! Those three are not really coding agents though.
My pleasure. What would you say differentiates (or will differentiate) Offrun from the others?
Haha good question, mostly for myself tbh. There's a section at the bottom of the page with my motivation:

"I built this site for two reasons:

- I think agent management tools will be an important category with a lot of innovation over the next few years.

- I keep finding new tools and then quickly forgetting their names, so I needed a place to keep track of them."

Yeah, to be honest I'm looking for ways to make the list more useful, but it's not that easy.

I'd love a way to track "popularity", but only 64% of the tools are on Github, so we can track their star counts, and less than half are installed via Homebrew or npm, which could let us track their install numbers.

Another option would be to let users say which tool(s) they use and calculate popularity based on that, but probably some tool authors would tell their community to go and vote for them and the result would be a ranking by which community is most engaged...

Open to ideas! :)

Added, thanks!
It seems more for isolating agents, not orchestrating them AFAICS.
Added, thanks!
I built a website that compares 68 of these tools: https://agentmgmt.dev/

Offrun is added.

Re:How to Start a Ruby Meetup on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:21AM (#48857670)
That's great, but from my experience, 90% of Rubyists I met are working with Rails. "Divorcing" from Rails is therefore absurd, just stuff people say who don't like DHH for one reason or another.
Re:Herdr: One terminal to rule them all on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:55AM (#48832024)
More options: https://agentmgmt.dev (disclaimer: built by me)
Re:Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#48077028)
Hmm, I don’t think sharing my personal experience would be that useful. For one, I’ve only used a handful of these tools long enough to give a meaningful assessment. More importantly, though, these tools evolve so quickly that anything I wrote would likely be outdated almost immediately.

I'd rather give folks an overview over which tools exist and some info about their popularity, price point etc.

Maybe it would be cool to add links to the founder's accounts on X, Youtube etc. where they share new releases and what they're working on...

Re:Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:34AM (#48075308)
Sure, but we gotta start somewhere, right? :) What would you find most useful to add next?
Re:Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators on Saturday May 09, 2026 @05:57AM (#48073609)
I added a comment to Cursor in the list. ;)
Re:Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators on Saturday May 09, 2026 @03:52AM (#48072904)
Thanks for the feedback!

> Good list, but gosh the term "agent orchestrator" is really being diluted endlessly these days.

Yeah, there's a lot happening in this space... but I think those 13 tools which are one the list right now all try to do the same thing - make it easier to run multiple agents (mostly over multiple apps) at the same time. Are there any tools you would add or remove?

> Also, putting Zed and Cursor in the same "freemium" bucket is really unfair...

Sure, the "free" plans of some of the tools are not really comparable, but I think that's out of scope for this list. :)

Show HN: The independent guide to agent orchestrators

https://agentmgmt.dev/

Hey HN!I built AgentMGMT.dev today to keep track of all those agent orchestration tools that keep popping up. I've tried a few and landed on Superset, which I'm extremely happy (and productive!) with - but I think this category of tools will be extremely important and interesting in the next couple years, so it's worth keeping an eye on all available tools and how they evolve.I will keep the...

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Really cool to see superpowers adjusted for Rails development!

One question: looking at the Rails conventions stills you added, wouldn't rules with paths be a better match for that: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#organize-rules-with-c...

Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:22AM (#40765414)
In my experience, Bundler has improved a lot with regard to resolving dependency issues over the years. And OS libs are only really depended on by a few gems, no? 99% of them don't use FFI or call OS libs.

Moreover, how often do you really move a script to a completely different OS, where you don't know which OS libs are installed? And wouldn't those missing OS libs also be a problem when writing the script in Bash or any other language?

Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:14AM (#40765371)
Hearing people still mention "monkey patching" always makes me chuckle... I haven't "monkey patched" anything in Ruby in > 5 years, and I don't see it in any of the popular libraries/gems anymore either.
Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:09AM (#40765348)
You can pin a gem to a specific version, of course.

`gem "mygem"` installs the latest version. `gem "mygem", "~> 4.0.0"` installs >= 4.0.0 but < 4.1.0, which is what you probably want when using Semantic Versioning, which most gems adhere to, to get the latest patch version. `gem "mygem", "4.0.10"` installs exactly that version.

Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:04AM (#40765324)
For 99% of use cases (especially when writing shell scripts) it doesn't matter, just pick the one you know better. Both are nicer than Bash though. :)
Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:02AM (#40765321)
Can you give an example? I can't think of a single situation where whitespace matters in Ruby (unless of course you forget to put a space between two commands or something silly).
Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:00AM (#40765306)
What do you mean by "broken gems"?
Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @02:58AM (#40765300)
> Sadly, 9 out of 10 environments lack a Ruby interpreter out of the box.

Please name those 10 environments you are talking about. In my experience, a reasonably recent Ruby version is present almost everywhere.

> add 5 minutes to your docker build

Why on earth would it take 5 minutes to install anything? If you install Ruby through a package manager (it's present in pretty much all of them: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#pac...) it takes only seconds.

Re:Ruby: A great language for shell scripts on Sunday June 23, 2024 @02:52AM (#40765276)
Similar case for me, but I think the author says it well:

> That is, most of the cases Bash for me is enough, but if the script starts to become complex, I switch to Ruby.

Even if ChatGPT lets you bang out more complex shell scripts easily, if you have to come back to it later on to fix an error or add a new feature, it's really hard to understand it (if you don't deal with such scripts on a daily basis). If you start with Ruby (or Python or similar) from the beginning, it's much easier to understand and extend later on.

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